Rude is rude, no matter the language

[Chromatix]

It is said that a Geordie consideres a Jock (Glaswegian) to be a Geordie with the brains knocked out.

It is also said that the Jocks say the same thing about the Geordies...

[dalesys]

It is said that a Geordie consideres a Jock (Glaswegian) to be a Geordie with the brains knocked out.

It is also said that the Jocks say the same thing about the Geordies...

I've got less brains than you do!

No! I've got less!

[hinakiba777]

When I worked at the hotel, we had a lot of Spanish speaking people from Miami and California come up to stay at our hotel. These were either people on contract with a firm up here, or bikers doing a tour of the Cabot Trail.

One day a woman was making a huge deal about how i should learn to speak Spanish because it was ignorant to speak only one language. I let her finish. Then I calmly explained, that the two official languages of Canada are English and French of both I speak fluently. And that I also speak Italian, near fluently. Plus i know a smattering of Russian, German, and Gaelic. She looked totally stunned. Her friends looked very embarrassed.

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

You ... could understand a strong Glaswegian accent?

Living in Ayrshire and working in Glasgow, one of the girls in my team has a very VERY strong accent... yes, I usually get most of it.

[PepperElf]

I've had this happen a couple times with Japanese when I was in Japan.

yeah japan's a bit interesting when it comes to language. it was explained to us that there are some establishments that won't accept foreigners... not because of prejudice but because they don't speak the customer's language. it's one of those "saving face" things.

like what happened to one of the guys on my last ship. the restaurant wasn't going to serve him thinking he was just a regular american... until he addressed them in japanese.


oh... and now i'm reminded of my BIL and one of his sisters. she lives in russia and is fluent in the language. she was getting her car fixed and the workers used a local dialect to discuss how they were going to take advantage of her with extra useless services etc.

when they had finished, she told them exactly what she wanted done on the car - in the same dialect.